Tagged: the matrix

“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.” Agent Smith – in the movie the Matrix.

If you look at the above statement, it has some “truth” and some “falsehood.” Just like everything in Life. There are 2 extremes and everything in between. It just depends on which side someone wants to take. For an “android” like Mr. Smith it is easy to separate himself from the human species. For a human, the above may be an extremist perception.

Mark and his wife decide to have 5 kids. They want to enjoy their growth and they know that this episode of raising kids will be relatively fast, therefore; they are willing to “sacrifice.” That is “good”! What a “happy” family! In the bigger picture, however; Agent Smith’s description is accurate.

That is how we find that something considered “good,” may not be 100%. Likewise, something considered “bad,” or “wrong” and “right.”

Every duality has a point of union. That is a gray area for our “black or white” morality. This will bring us to another “revelation” of Life: Something which is “real” has the equal potential to be “good or bad,” “right or wrong.” You have a knife. It has the same potential to be helpful or harmful. It just depends on your viewpoint, your circumstances, your previous experiences… and your intention.

“So what about God? Isn’t “Him” 100% good?” Ahem… yes… what about “Him”?

Those who have ears will hear.

A belief is neither “right nor wrong.” It has timing. When timing is not respected then that belief is not according to the movement of Life. It becomes antiquated.

The “black or white” mentality and morality is the disease. Why? Because it does not fit the “reality” of change, movement, but it supports stagnation, through the belief of static ideals which cannot be “true” in a world of changes.

The “reality” of Life cannot be understood by those who are conditioned through static ideals, extreme beliefs and ego driven minds. It is all in the mind.

Of course, the above may be misunderstood by many. It could be labeled as “bad.” It is “natural.” That is why, a “best seller” may be “good” for you… Something that may tell you how “good you are.” Something that may teach you how to “materialize your desires.” Something that may give you the key for wealth, happiness and love in your life… 100% good and “real.” 🙂

We use the word “I” to denote an individuality. It is “me.” That “me” is static. Even though the body, personality and mind change; we believe to be the same “I.” The “I” is like the”now.” A ripple in the moving waters of the immense Ocean of Life.The above explains succinctly, the main issue in “true spirituality” to be aware of.

Most individuals fear death. There was a person who once told me: “I fear death, for that is the end.”

I told her: “It is likely that “you” will not encounter death.” She looked at me as if “I” spoke in another language.That individuality who will encounter death is not the one who spoke to me. It will be another. That fear is the product of a mind incapable of living in the “now.” Can you imagine when I was an 8 year old fearing death? Was that kid the same as Ahnanda now? We have nothing in common, other than the same mind remembering things.

Our society thrives in the enhancement of the “I.” The next worshiped symbol is called “choice.” “I choose.” That is a self-contained popular “truth” that not too many have explored. There is no “I” choosing. It is either the mind or the gut feeling. The mind is not “you” but the accumulation of past experiences, learned behaviors which are extrapolated into the future. Most do not recognize the mind away from the “I.” The mind is static. It likes pictures. Reality is not static, it is a flow, a movie. Life is flow and so “I.”

If the “gut feeling” is “choosing” there is no-choice. It is what it is. It could be “wrong” for “my” perceived benefit or idea of what is “good or bad” but as far as the Universe is concerned; it is “right.”

Who is choosing then? There is no choice in Life. Choice is an invention of the ego centered mind. Let me use some examples from the well known 1999 movie “The Matrix.”“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

“Neo” (main character) picked the red pill. Didn’t the “Oracle” know that already, before that “choosing” took place? Yes… The “choice” was taken before “choosing.”

The “I” feels pretty awkward with that crazy “idea”! Consider this: We are ONE with Life. Thus, who is choosing? Who is separating from that oneness to assert its presence? The “I” through the mind. What is the mind?“More important than what is when…” (to paraphrase the Matrix.) When the mind appears, are you aware of it? That awareness is you.Awareness is without choice. The rest is happening, it is occurring, there is nothing to DO but what is in your gut feeling; that is to be ONE with Life.

Nevertheless, the “I” wants to choose happiness, it wants to choose paradise, it wants to choose responsibility, etc.In that “choice” sorrow appears, hell arises and guilt surfaces. Choice means duality. That “I” will experience what it wants… and what it doesn’t want to. Life offers that “free-will” package as a bundle. “Your” choice means nothing… but the “office world” gurus will tell you otherwise. That is how “Best-sellers” are sold. 🙂